Pearl Harbor DVD Gift Set (Feature Film/ Beyond The Movie) Rating: Release Date: 04 December, 2001 Retail Price: $49.99 OUR Price: $44.99 You SAVE: $5.00! Cast: Pearl Harbor 2pak Ben Affleck Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor DVD Gift Set (Feature Film/ Beyond The Movie) Reviews

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Drama
Understood that many of the soldiers in WWII (or any battle for that matter) experienced alot of loss on the home front with women but this movie is a painful love story for the first 90 minutes. If you don't mind watching Ben Affleck cry then you'll love it. The battle scenes in Europe are highly dramatized (although the actual Pearl Harbor attack was quite detailed IMHO). Plenty of DVD extra's if thats your thing, but as far as a good war movie goes, Pearl falls very short.

Three stars because I like the effort and the effects are stunning, but if you want an accurate recreation of Dec. 7, 1941 buy Tora Tora Tora.

Lean as a Romance--Quite Chilling in the Cinematography!
I think other reviewers really do miss the point--especially the Europeans. Hey, guys, this is an event that happened to America! Isn't it only natural that it be shown from an American point of view? Polish or Russian movies (and English ones!) would show their respective viewpoints, too.

That being said, the romance really is a little trite. What's worse, there's little chemistry between the principals and the girl. Because of too little character development, you really don't care much "who gets the girl." I found it more interesting to ponder the male-male bonding, however; are we viewers supposed to detect some homoeroticism?


But the real strengths of this movie are 1) the battle scenes and 2) the three-strip Technicolor. This was the last movie ever made in Technicolor; one must see the colors to believe them. Brilliant blues and greens (and yellows and oranges!) jump startingly off the screen at the viewer. The battle scenes and the exterior shots in Hawaii promenade this Technicolor most prominently; has a beach shot ever been photographed more beautifully, or a battle shot so realistically?

This movie is worth seeing for the cinematography alone. Forget the silly romance.

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